#18

Fellow Pittsburgher here. I really loved the older series of modules they did which included the Timerunner, Game System, Switch, Crush, v2 Filter, and Verbtronic. I hope that they pursue more modules like that in the future. The Florist seems like a step in that stranger direction.

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#19

Also regarding this talk of being angry they made more of a limited module, there are bigger problems in this world. Seems like enough people wanted to get one and they had a change of heart. Small companies have limited resources.

Look at the generation loss cooper fx/chase bliss pedal, very annoying that it was limited and now prices are absolutely ridiculous.

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#20

I still have my Timerunner and despite it being functionally replaced by Pam’s New there’s an immediacy and novelty in the design that I’m having a hard time saying “yeah I’m never gonna want this again.” I never grabbed Game System but I feel like if i saw one at the right price now (and felt like affording that) I’d grab it. Pitts definitely dropped some pretty novel modules that they don’t sustain as a product line.

I don’t have a reason in 2020 to afford their new lil desktop jams but that is a genre of electronic music instrument I always love to see work happening in.

I had a Cell90 case that transitioned me to a Move208 that I swapped a 'Jel power board into. were/are these perfect? nah but they were in my budget and have gotten me where I am.

the mk of Outs I had was noisy but I think I paid $50 for it. Just feel like Pitts never had a “hit” module despite having a lot of pretty good work out there. Whatever they are still in business and responded promptly to a couple Q’s I had about swapping the power on my 208 case.

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#21

this thing always seemed badass to me and i’m still kicking myself for never investigating what seems like a module designed specially for me.

#22

never owned pitts but i loved their early aesthetics (eg vilfo)

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#23

cell 48 was my first case

not sure i’d have embraced modular synthesis w/o a decently priced low hp option like that

been a wonderful journey…thanks and welcome @soysos

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#24

My second or third semi-modular synth was the SV-1, which is still the only PM device I have as yet, but I’m looking forward to the return of the Voltage Lab. The SV-1 sounds immense too, and I have learned a lot through patching it.

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#25

I really was a fan of the Double Helix, and regret having sold mine (back when I tried to replace a bunch of gear with an ER-301). It had some weird crosstalk, a couple of odd design decisions (such as no sync) and, let’s generously call it “nonlinear behavior” – but frankly that just added to its charm. It sounded gorgeous.

If I’d had a case with a more robust power supply at the time, I might have gotten a second one.

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#26

I have only owned the SV-1 but it was my gateway into modular. I still use it a lot for things like S+H and some FM. Learned so much on this thing. Would love to support them more, I might need to start looking into their modules.

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#27

i’m big fan of the Big Ol Knob panel interfaces too

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#28

I really want a Voltage Lab in the Blackbox format as they have pictured/described on their website.
Did that product ever exist?
Will it ever exist?
Is it just on the website as some sort of tease?

(I’ve only recently returned to synth-land after a hiatus, of sorts)

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#29

yes please to a more adventurous direction. I have a feeling the main engineer is down:

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#30

Yes, they did end up making a black box version, they still pop up fairly regularly on reverb, though I think production may have halted while they’re working on the new iteration of the VRL.

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#31

VRL 2 is in the pipeline, but there’s a bunch of new things ahead out first…
…plus covid shit… It’ll be an exciting year ahead for Pitt Mod.

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#32

Agreed about the Florist, it’s a wonderfully wonky module. Really organic and liquid sounding. Funny about the Timerunner and the original Timetable… I could never really get rhythmic patterns out of it that I found useful in my music and I never really understood how it actually worked despite Richard explaining it to me multiple times.

#33

Ya, the Voltage Influenced LFO
It was Richard’s first module and was essentially an accident along the way of trying to develope a VC LFO, but it sort of works backwards in a great way. That was my idea for the Chain Reactor, 2 VILFOs with 2 simple supporting LFOs. The behavior of that circuit is a central element of my modulation tool box.

#34

Yes, the Voltage Lab Black Box was an option of the original kickstarter campaign. Not sure of the status of a stand alone for the VL2.
It’s going to be a great synth though.

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#35

I love my Binary Filter. The big freq knob is very practical on stage and the unstable mode is a load of fun.

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#36

I have their VC Bend. Odd module, even PM couldn’t quite explain how it works!

I’ve thought about maybe selling it but it’s really rare and every now and then I get some interesting stuff out of it…

Does anyone have any idea what it is actually doing?

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#37

I have a VC Bend and have no idea either.
Always got some cool but unpredictable results.
From the manual:
Control Voltage Modulation

The VC Bend is designed as a way to create less than certain variations from pre-determined control voltages, like transposing / inverting a bassline into a melody or creating a 3rd envelope from 2 sources. Used at audio rate, it acts like a voltage controlled full wave rectifier. The VC Bend favours ‘esoteric’ applications over precision. More often than not the output voltage will not resemble the input. Functionally, the VC Bend sits somewhere between a sample and hold and a quantizer module. However, the type of modulation produced is completely unique to the VC Bend.

The VC Bend takes a bipolar (positive or negative) control voltage input and modulates it by the amount of the CV Input in relation to the Internal Voltage Reference. The output is a voltage which is always above 0V, the direction (moving with or away from the input) of which can be altered with an external voltage.

Features:

Voltage Controlled Control Voltage Bender

Full Wave Rectifier - The output is always a positive voltage. Converts a bi-polar input voltage (generally +/-5V) into a uni-polar output voltage (0-10V).

CV Amplifier. Both IN and CV inputs have attenuverted knobs to control polarity and gain (2X positive and negative gain).
:confused:

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